| Table SH27. Standard errors for the percentage distribution of public high school graduates who earned any credits in each occupational area, by number of credits earned in the area: 2005 |
| Agriculture and natural resources | 1.48 | 1.47 | 0.85 | 0.72 | 0.59 | 1.00 |
| Business | 1.34 | 1.16 | 0.59 | 0.30 | 0.21 | 0.20 |
| Business finance | 1.68 | 1.58 | 1.05 | 0.37 | 0.24 | 0.19 |
| Business management | 2.40 | 2.12 | 0.51 | 0.50 | 0.16 | 0.16 |
| Business support | 2.86 | 2.59 | 1.01 | 0.34 | 0.13 | 0.19 |
| Communications and design | 1.53 | 1.21 | 0.51 | 0.35 | 0.25 | 0.19 |
| Computer and information sciences | 1.56 | 1.48 | 0.76 | 0.49 | 0.23 | 0.36 |
| Construction and architecture | 2.09 | 1.93 | 1.36 | 0.74 | 0.78 | 1.11 |
| Architecture | 4.95 | 4.78 | 1.21 | 1.13 | 1.23 | 0.45 |
| Construction | 2.29 | 2.41 | 1.69 | 0.95 | 0.83 | 1.50 |
| Consumer and culinary services | 1.87 | 1.46 | 0.81 | 0.45 | 0.33 | 0.42 |
| Consumer services | 2.07 | 1.89 | 0.87 | 0.47 | 0.41 | 0.47 |
| Culinary arts | 3.35 | 2.66 | 1.25 | 0.53 | 0.31 | 0.64 |
| Engineering technologies | 2.24 | 1.80 | 0.89 | 0.57 | 0.44 | 0.43 |
| Health sciences | 3.76 | 2.39 | 1.12 | 1.34 | 0.84 | 0.90 |
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 1.70 | 1.10 | 0.84 | 0.56 | 0.46 | 0.62 |
| Manufacturing | 2.06 | 1.42 | 0.87 | 0.59 | 0.47 | 0.39 |
| Repair and transportation | 2.48 | 1.45 | 1.28 | 0.86 | 0.96 | 0.96 |
| Mechanics and repair | 2.27 | 1.48 | 1.23 | 0.92 | 1.01 | 1.07 |
| Transportation | 11.55 | 7.92 | 7.81 | 1.25 | † | 0.40 |
| Marketing | 2.84 | 2.12 | 1.02 | 0.87 | 0.44 | 0.43 |
| Public services | 3.74 | 3.11 | 1.25 | 0.93 | 0.47 | 1.14 |
| Education and library science | 3.20 | 2.43 | 1.97 | 1.05 | 0.51 | 1.11 |
| Education | 4.02 | 2.93 | 2.80 | 1.59 | 0.76 | 1.69 |
| Library science | 5.58 | 4.53 | 2.06 | 0.42 | 0.46 | † |
| Protective/legal services and public administration | 5.75 | 5.46 | 1.45 | 1.45 | 0.69 | 1.84 |
| Protective services | 6.33 | 5.41 | 1.50 | 0.97 | 0.69 | 1.89 |
| Public administration and legal services | 10.39 | 18.01 | 3.23 | 15.23 | 1.29 | 2.67 |
† Not applicable.
SOURCE: U .S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2005.
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